>Putting the linecount in there makes more sense. Some MUAs might be happy
>about that, and it still allows easy calculation of wiresize (add
>number of lines to physical size). More info, less bytes :)
>
>> Optimally the wire-size is calculated when the mail is written to
>> Maildir/tmp/ and then applied as an "info" flag when the file is moved
>> to Maildir/new/.
>
>Yes. Mind the performance penalty tho.
Not a bad idea. The performance penalty would be tiny, reading buffers
that are about to be written out won't cause an extra page fault.
>> A possible complication with this approach is that my reading of
>> Maildir infers that "info" can only be set when the file moves from
>> Maildir/new/ to Maildir/cur/.
>
>That's what the spec says, indeed. A delivery process is not supposed
>to know anything, so :info is not needed in new/.
Gee, we find that even Dan isn't infallible. In retrospect, there's all
sorts of hints that the delivery process could leave.
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